Other view: Don't cut big benefit programs

9:14 AM,
Nov. 1, 2013

Written by

Sen. Bernie Sanders

In America today, the middle class is disappearing, unemployment is sky high and senior poverty is growing. We also have the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country.

At a time when almost all new income created is going to the top 1 percent and when the gap between the very rich and everybody else is growing wider, we must not balance the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable people in our country: working families, the elderly, children, the sick and the poor.